Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) faced an un­ex­pect­ed set­back to its screen­ing ex­er­cise on Fri­day due to elec­tri­cal is­sues at its cen­tral head­quar­ters.

Nom­i­nees for Diego Mar­tin North/East, Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral, Diego Mar­tin West and Cu­mu­to/Man­zanil­la were sched­uled to be screened at the par­ty’s Mulchan Seuchan Road, Ch­agua­nas head­quar­ters at 6 pm. How­ev­er, parts of the build­ing were left in dark­ness when around 4.30 pm a loud ex­plo­sion was heard and smoke be­gan em­a­nat­ing from a main split­ter box lo­cat­ed at the front of the build­ing. About an hour lat­er of­fi­cials from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) ar­rived.

As the team worked to as­sess the is­sue, par­ty mem­bers man­aged to get the back­up gen­er­a­tor up and run­ning, how­ev­er, the screen­ing ex­er­cis­es were moved from the build­ing’s sec­ond floor to the ground floor due to the elec­tri­cal chal­lenges.